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THE CZECHOSLOVAK FLAG 
HISTORIC COAT OF ARMS OF THE 
CZECHOSLOVAK LANDS 

ARMS AND FLAG OF THE 
CZECHOSLOVAK NATIONAL COUNCIL 





THE CZECHOSLOVAK FLAG 


T HE colors of the Czechoslovak flag are white and red, in 
two stripes, the white above the red. This, the historical 
flag of Bohemia, has been the flag of the Czech and Slovak 
revolutions against the Hapsburgs from the very beginning, 
and was used in the revolution of 1848 both by the Czechs 
and by the Slovaks. The Slovaks of Hungary have lately been 
using the so-called “ Pan- Slavic" tricolor , which , however , is 
properly Russian. In the Manifesto of the Slovak Constituent 
Assembly fLiptovsky Sv. Mikulas , May , 1848), the right to use 
the white and red as the national colors of Slovakia was made 
one of the chief demands. 

The white-red flag is consecrated by its use in the Czecho- 
slovak armies in the present revolution. Under this flag Czechs 
and Slovaks have shed their blood in France, Italy and Russia 
for the cause of the Allies and for their Independence. Hence 
the white-red flag is both the national and the battle flag 
of the Czechoslovaks. 

FLAG OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK NATIONAL COUNCIL 

The future Diet of the Czechoslovak State alone can adopt 
an official flag for the State. During this war the Czechoslovak 
National Council, the provisional government of the Czecho- 
slovaks, has adopted as its official colors white and red in a 
blue field. In the center are the initials C S, the insignia of 
the Czechoslovak armies in France and Italy. The blue field 
is taken from the color of the three mountains Tatra, Matra 
and Fatra on the Slovak coat of arms. Surmounting the staff 
of the flag are four interlaced rings, symbolic of the four com- 
ponent lands of the Czechoslovak State : Bohemia, Moravia, 
Silesia, Slovakia. 

Czechoslovak National Council 

WASHINGTON, D. C. 

September , 1918 






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The Czechoslovak Flag 



Kingdom of 
Bohemia 



Duchy of Silesia 



Silesia 


lower 

Lusa,tia 


Coat of Arms of the Lands of the 
Ancient Bohemian Crown. 

Upper and Lower Lusatia, formerly part 
of the Bohemian Crown, have since be- 
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Margravateof 

Moravia 



Slovakia 



Arms and Flag of the 
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